Unfinished business: I believe I´ve contacted everyone in my Weird Bottle Swap and several bottles are on their way to new homes. Winners were: Matt, Dana, Rosarita, Cathy, Catherine, Sariah, Kim … I´m forgetting someone, but you know who you are. I wonder what I’ll get in return? On to today´s post: If you´d like [...]
It seems to me that when it’s truly hot, summer is best defined by visuals that are almost abstract. When it swelters, cars can lift off the ground, people’s heads separate from their bodies, their shoulders widening, then wobbling, before returning to true. Trees quiver as though root-rocked by a terrible storm and the air [...]
Where’s all the ice in Paris? Every glass of water or Coke I had, whether in a cafe or at my family’s house, came without ice. Is that a cultural thing? I’m so used to dispensing my mondo-size water container up to the top with ice, then squeezing in some water on top of [...]
We got together for our informal D.C. sniff-together on Saturday; it was cold and damp but at least it had stopped raining. Thanks again to Nancy and Louise for organizing this! It was great to reconnect with old friends and make new ones. The group numbered 20ish, with folks there from MUA or POL, Posse [...]
Paris is pretty much all that I thought it would be… and more… and less. We arrived on Monday morning in the rain. After waiting for an hour in a gorgeous cool, not cold, rain, the driver who was to have my name on a card – nowhere to be found, us thinking we had [...]